Thrust a lit torch into the darkness and a way can be seen. Thrust a lit torch into a man's face and he may be blinded or killed.
Fire.
A ball of fire over a million kilometers wide can render some planets barren and lifeless, but can also give life to billions of organisms on others.
The difference between what is believed and what is known, for most, is far too great. Beliefs can help us to do great things, but they can also bring us to ruin.
Can the truth, on its own, bring one to ruin? Are there some things that are best left unknown? Should we seek to know the truth no matter the risk to our mental well-being?
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream."
-- Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
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